1:1 Paul, bondservant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated* to the good-news of God, 1:2 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, 1:3
concerning his Son, (who was born from the seed of David according to the flesh, 1:4 who has
been determined as being the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of holiness, out of the
resurrection of the dead), Jesus Christ our Lord. 1:5 Through whom, we received grace and
apostleship, into the obedience of the faith in all the nations, on behalf of his name; 1:6 among
whom you° are also called {Or: invited; and in all other instances in the MLV} of Jesus Christ. 1:7 To all
those who are in Rome, beloved of God, called holy-ones: grace to you° and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:8 First indeed, I am giving-thanks to my God through Jesus Christ on behalf of all of you°,
that your° faith is proclaimed in the whole world. 1:9 For* God is my witness, to whom I am
giving-divine service in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, as I constantly make* a
remembrance of you°. 1:10 I beseech God always in my prayers, if somehow now, I will be
prospered in the will of God to come to you° someday, 1:11 for* I am longing to see you°, in order
that I may give to you° some spiritual gift*, *that* you° may be established; 1:12 and this is my
prayer to be encouraged together among you°, through the faith in one another, both yours° and
mine. 1:13 Now brethren, I do not wish you° to be ignorant that I often purposed to come to you°
(and I was prevented till presently), in order that I might also have some fruit among you°, just-as
among the rest of the Gentiles. 1:14 I am a debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the
wise and to the foolish. 1:15 So, as in me, I am eager to proclaim the good-news to you° also who
are in Rome.

1:16 For* I am not ashamed of the good-news of the Christ; for* it is the power of God *for
salvation to everyone who believes; both to the Jew first and to the Greek. 1:17 For*the
righteousness of God is revealed from faith to {Or: into} faith in it; just-as it has been written, 'But
the righteous will be living from faith.' {Hab. 2:4}

1:18 For* the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness
of men and upon those holding back the truth in unrighteousness; 1:19 because what is known of
God is apparent among them; for* God manifested it to them. 1:20 For* the invisible things of him
are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things made, both his
eternal power and divinity; *that* they may be without defense; 1:21 because having known God,
they did not glorify him as God, nor gave-thanks, but became-futile in their reasonings and their
heart was darkened without understanding. 1:22 They were foolish, claiming to be wise, 1:23 and
changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and
of birds and of four footed mammals and of reptiles.

1:24 Hence also, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts into uncleanness, *that* their
bodies should be dishonored among themselves. 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God into a lie
and worshiped and gave-divine service to the created thing contrary to the one who created it,
who is gracious* forever. Amen.

1:26 Because of this, God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for* even their females
exchanged the natural use into what is contrary to anything natural; 1:27 and the males also
likewise, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward one another, males
with* males working forth indecency and receiving in themselves the recompense which was
essential from their error.

1:28 And just-as they did not approve to have God in their full knowledge, God gave them up
to an unapproved mind, to do those things which are not proper. 1:29 They have been filled with
all: unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of: envy, murder, strife,
treachery, maliciousness. They are: malicious whisperers, 1:30 slandering, spiteful to God,
insolent, haughty, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 1:31 without
understanding, covenant-breakers, cold-hearted, implacable and unmerciful. 1:32 Who, having
fully known the ordinance of God, (that those practicing such things are worthy of death), are not
only practicing the same things, but also are consenting with those who are practicing the same
things.

[Romans 2]

2:1 Hence O man, you are without defense, everyone who judges; for* in what you are judging
the other, you are condemning yourself; for* you who judge are practicing the same things. 2:2
Now we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who practice
such things. 2:3 Now O man, who is judging those who practice such things and you are
practicing the same things. Are you reasoning that you will be fleeing from the judgment of
God? 2:4 Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, being
ignorant that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance? 2:5 But you store up wrath for
yourself according to your hardness and unrepentant heart in the day of wrath and revelation of
the righteous judgment of God; 2:6 who will 'repay to each according to his works.' {Pro 24:12b, Psa
62:12}2:7 Everlasting life to those who indeed by endurance in good work are seeking glory and
honor and incorruption. 2:8 But to those seeking things out of selfish ambition and who are indeed
disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, he will repay with fury and wrath, 2:9 affliction
and distress upon every soul of man who is working evil, both of the Jew first and of the Greek.
2:10 But glory and honor and peace to every man who is working good, to the Jew first and also to
the Greek; 2:11 for* there is no favoritism with God.

2:12 For* as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. And as many
as have sinned under the law will be judged through the law. 2:13 For* the hearers of the law are
not righteous with God, but the doers of the law will be made righteous. 2:14 For* whenever the
Gentiles, not having the law, practice the things of the law by nature, these, not having the law,
are the law to themselves; 2:15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their
conscience testifying together with their hearts, and between one another, their reasonings are
accusing or either defending them; 2:16 in the day when God will be judging the secrets of men
through Jesus Christ, according to my teaching of the good-news.

2:17 Behold, you who are named a Jew and rest upon the law and boast in God, 2:18 and know
God's will and approve the things which carry more-value, being instructed out of the law, 2:19
and have confidence that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in
darkness, 2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the form of
knowledge and of the truth.

2:21 Therefore you who are teaching a different one, are you not teaching yourself? You who are
preaching not to steal, are you stealing? 2:22 You who are saying to not commit adultery, are you
committing adultery? You who detest idols, are you a temple looter? 2:23 You who are boasting in
the law, through your transgression of the law, are you dishonoring God? 2:24 'For* the name of
God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you°,' just-as it has been written. 2:25 For*
circumcision indeed profits, if you practice the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your
circumcision has become uncircumcision. {Isa 52:5}

2:26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision are observing the ordinances of the law, will his
uncircumcision not be counted toward circumcision? 2:27 And the uncircumcision by nature who
is completing the law, will be judging you, who are a transgressor of the law through the writing
{Or: 'scripture' meaning 'scriptures' also in 2:29, 7:6.} and circumcision. 2:28 For* he is not a Jew openly;
nor is circumcision what is openly in the flesh, 2:29 but he is a Jew in the hidden thing, and the
circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in the writing; whose praise is not from men, but from
God.

[Romans 3]

3:1 Therefore what is the supremacy of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision? 3:2
Much, according to every manner! For* indeed, first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of
God. 3:3 For* what if some disbelieved? Their unbelief will be not doing-away-with the
faithfulness of God, will it? 3:4 Let it not happen! Now, let God become true, but everyone a liar;
just-as it has been written, '*That you should be made righteous in your words and may overcome
when you are judged.' {Psa 51:4}3:5 For* if our unrighteousness is establishing the righteousness of
God, what will we say? The God who brings upon us wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I speak
according to the manner of man.) 3:6 Let it not happen! Otherwise how will God judge the world?

3:7 But if the truth of God in my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still being judged
like a sinner? 3:8 And why not say: Let us do evil, in order that good things should come (just-like
we are blasphemed and just-like some say that we speak blasphemies?) Whose condemnation is
just!

3:9 Therefore what? Are we, Jews special? Certainly not; for* we accused beforehand, both
Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; 3:10 just-as it has been written, 'There is none
righteous, not even one. 3:11 No one is understanding. No one is seeking out God. 3:12 They all
shunned God. They were becoming-useless at the same time. No one is practicing kindness; no
one is insofar as even one.' {Psa 14:1-3 & 53:1-3}3:13 'Their throat has been an opened burial
chamber; they were treacherous with their tongues.' {Psa 5:9} 'The poison of asps is under their
lips.' {Psa 140:3}3:14 'Whose mouth is full of evil-cursing and bitterness.' {Psa 10:7?}3:15 'Their feet
are swift to shed blood; 3:16 downfall and miseries are in their ways; 3:17 and they did not know
the way of peace.' {Isa 59:7,8}3:18 'There is no fear of God in front of their eyes.' {Psa 36:1}

3:19 Now we know how-much, as many things as the law says, it is speaking to those in the
law; in order that every mouth may be sealed and all the world may become under the sentence
of God; 3:20 because no flesh will be made righteous in his sight from the works of the law; for*
through the law comes the full knowledge of sin.

3:21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested separate from the law, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets; 3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith of Jesus
Christ toward all and upon all those who believe; for* there is no distinction; 3:23 for* all have
sinned and come-short of the glory of God. 3:24All those who believe, being made righteous
freely by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, 3:25 whom God purposed as
an atonement through the faith in his blood in an example of his righteousness, because of the
passing over of the sins, having been done beforehand, 3:26 (in the forbearance of God), even
toward the example of his righteousness in this current time, *that* he may himself be righteous
and who is making righteous the one from the faith of Jesus.

3:27 Therefore where is the boasting? It was locked out. Through what law? Of works? No, but
through the law of faith. 3:28 Therefore, we are reasoning that a man is made righteous in faith
separate from the works of the law. 3:29 Or is God the God of Jews only and not the God of
Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also. 3:30 Since God is one, it is he who will be making righteous
the circumcision out of faith and the uncircumcision through the faith. 3:31 Therefore, do we do-away-with the law through the faith? Let it not happen! But through the faith, we are
establishing the law.

[Romans 4]

4:1 Therefore what will we say, that Abraham, our father, has found according to the flesh? 4:2
For* if Abraham was made righteous out of works, he has grounds for boasting, but not toward
God. 4:3 For* what does the Scripture say? 'And Abraham believed God and it was counted to him
*for righteousness.' {Gen 15:6}4:4 Now to the one who is working, the reward is not counted
according to favor, but according to debt. 4:5 But to the one who is not working, but believes on
the one who makes righteous the ungodly, his faith is counted *for righteousness. 4:6 Just-as
David also says concerning the good-fortune of the man to whom God counts righteousness
separate from works, 4:7saying, 'Those whose lawlessnesses are forgiven and whose sins are
covered are fortunate. 4:8The man to whom the Lord may never* count sin, is fortunate.' {Psa
32:1,2}4:9 Therefore is this good-fortune upon the circumcision or also upon the uncircumcision?
For* we say that his faith was counted to Abraham *for righteousness. 4:10 Therefore how was it
counted? When* he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in
uncircumcision. 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the
faith of which he had in the uncircumcision, *that* he might be the father of all those who
believe, even through uncircumcision, *that* righteousness might also be counted to them; {Gen
17:10}4:12 and the father of circumcision, to those not only from the circumcision, but to those
who also are marching in the footprints of the faith of our father Abraham which he had in
uncircumcision.

4:13 For* the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, but not
through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 4:14 For* if those from the law are heirs,
the faith has been made void and the promise has been done-away-with. 4:15 For* the law is
working wrath; for* where there is no law, neither is there transgression. 4:16 Because of this, it is
from faith, in order that it may be according to grace; *that* the promise may be steadfast to all
the seed; not to what is only from the law, but also to what is from the faith of Abraham, who is
the father of us all, 4:17 (as it has been written, 'I have placed you as a father of many nations' {Gen
17:5}), in front of God, the one whom he believed, who is giving-life to the dead and is calling
the things which are not, as though they are. 4:18Abraham who contrary to hope believed upon
hope, *that* he might become a father of many nations, according to what had been spoken, So
your seed will be. {Gen 15:5}

4:19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already sterile, (being*
nearly a hundred years), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. 4:20 But he did not doubt through
unbelief at the promise of God, but became empowered through faith, having given glory to
God, 4:21 and being fully assured that what he has promised; he is able also to do. 4:22 Hence it was
also counted to him *for righteousness. 4:23 Now it was not written, 'It was counted to him,'
because of him only; 4:24 but also, because of us to whom it is about to be counted, who believe
on the one who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, 4:25 who was given up because of our
trespasses and was raised up because of our justification {Or: being made righteous.}.

[Romans 5]

5:1 Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our
Lord Jesus Christ; 5:2 through whom we also have had our access to this grace in the faith in
which we are standing, and we are boasting in hope of the glory of God. 5:3 But not only in this,
but we are also boasting in our afflictions, knowing that affliction is working endurance; 5:4 and
endurance, approved character, and an approved character, hope; 5:5 and hope does not shame
one, because the love* of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has
been given to us. 5:6 For* when* we were still weak, according to the proper time, Christ died on
behalf of the ungodly. 5:7 For* scarcely will one die on behalf of a righteous man; for* perhaps
someone might even dare to die on behalf of the good man. 5:8 But God is establishing his own
love* toward us, in that when* we were still sinners, Christ died on our behalf. 5:9 Therefore much
more, having been now made righteous in his blood, we will be saved from the wrath of God
through him. 5:10 For* if, when* we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death
of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved in his life; 5:11 and not only so,
but we are also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received the reconciliation.

5:12 Because of this, just-as sin entered into the world through one man and death through sin,
and so death has gone forth to all men, in which all have sinned. 5:13 For* Sin was in the world till
the law, but sin is not charged to one's account when* there is no law. 5:14 But death reigned from
Adam till Moses, even on those who did not sin on the likeness of the transgression of Adam,
who is a pattern of the future one.5:15 But not like the trespass, so also is the gift*. For* if the
many died by the trespass of the one, the favor of God and the gift by the favor of the one man,
Jesus Christ, abounded much more to the many. 5:16 Now the gift is not as through one who
sinned; for* indeed the judgment came from one into condemnation, but the gift*came from
many trespasses into an act of righteousness. 5:17 For* if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned
through the one; much more they, who are receiving the abundance of the favor and of the gift of
righteousness, will be reigning in life through the one, who is Jesus Christ. 5:18 Therefore
consequently*, as through one trespass the judgment came to all men to condemnation; so
through the righteousness of one manthe gift also came to all men into justification of life. 5:19
For* as through the one man's disobedience* the many were designated as sinners, so also
through the obedience of the one the many will be designated as righteous. 5:20 But the law
entered in beside us, in order that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, the favor
{Or: grace} over-abounded; 5:21 in order that, just-as sin reigned in death, so also the favor {Or:
grace} might also reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

[Romans 6]

6:1 Therefore what will we say? Are we remaining in sin, in order that grace {Or: favor; and so
elsewhere in the letters to the congregations} may increase? 6:2 Let it not happen! We who died to sin,
how will we live in it any longer? 6:3 Or are you° ignorant that as many as were immersed* into
Christ Jesus were immersed* into his death? 6:4 Therefore we were buried together with him
through the immersion* into his death; in order that just-like Christ was raised up from the dead
through the glory of the Father, so we might also walk in newness of life. 6:5 For* if we have
become unified together with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be unified with himin
the likeness of his resurrection. 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with
him, in order that the body of sin might be done-away, that we are to be enslaved to sin no
longer; 6:7 for* he who has died has been made righteous away from sin. 6:8 But if we died
together with Christ, we believe that we will also be living together with him; 6:9 knowing that
Christ having been raised up from the dead dies no more; death has no more lordship over him.
6:10 For* that deaththat he died to sin, he died to sin once for all, but that life that he lives, he is
living to God. 6:11 So you° also, count° yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in
Christ Jesus our Lord.

6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your° mortal body, *that* you° might obey* it in its lusts;
6:13 nor present° your° members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present° yourselves to
God, as living from the dead and your° members as weapons of righteousness to God. 6:14 For* sin
will not have lordship over you°; for* you° are not under the law, but under grace. 6:15 Therefore
what? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? Let it not happen! 6:16 Do
you° not know, that to whom you° present yourselves as bondservants to obedience, you° are the
bondservants to whom you° obey*; either of sin to death or of obedience to righteousness? 6:17 But
gratitude to God, that, though you° were bondservants of sin, you° obeyed* from the heart the
pattern {Or: example; 6:3-6} of teaching to which you° were given; 6:18 and having been made free
from sin, you° were enslaved to righteousness.

6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your° flesh; for* just-as you° presented
your° members as bondservants to uncleanness and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness,
so now present° your° members as bondservants to righteousness leading to holiness. 6:20 For*
when you° were bondservants of sin, you° were free in regard to the righteousness. 6:21 Therefore,
what fruit were you° having then in the things of which you° are now ashamed? For* the end of
those things is death. 6:22 But now, having been made free from sin and having been enslaved to
God, you° have your° fruit leading to holiness and the end everlasting life. 6:23 For* the
compensations of sin is death, but the gift* of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[Romans 7]

7:1 Or are you° ignorant, brethren (for* I am speaking to men who know the law), that the law
has lordship over a man inasmuch time as he is living? 7:2 For* the woman in wedlock has been
bound by the law to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she has been done-away-with
{i.e.: discharged} from the law of the husband. 7:3 Therefore consequently*, if the husband is living,
if she becomes joined to a different man, she will be divinely-called, an adulteress. But if the
husband dies, she is free from the law, she is not an adulteress, even if she had become joined to
a different man.

7:4 So-then my brethren, you° were also slain to the law through the body of Christ; *that* you°
should become joined to a different one, that is to the one who was raised up from the dead, in
order that we might bear-fruit to God. 7:5 For* when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions
which were through the law, was working in our members, *that* they might bear-fruit to death.
7:6 But now we have been done-away-with {i.e.: discharged} from the law, having died in what we
were being held; so-that we are to serve* in newness of the spirit and not in oldness of the
writing.

7:7 Therefore what shall we say? Is the law sin? Let it not happen! But, I did not know sin,
except through the law; for* I also did not know coveting {Greek: lust}, except that the law was
saying, Do not covet {Greek: lust}{Exo 20:17}. 7:8 But sin, having taken a starting-point, worked in
me through the commandment all manner of coveting {Greek: lust}; for* separate from the law sin
is dead. 7:9 But I was previously living separate from the law, but when* the commandment came,
sin lived again through me and I died; 7:10 and the commandment which was to life, it was found
in me to be to death; 7:11 for* sin, having taken a starting-point through the commandment,
deceived me and through it killed me. 7:12 So-that the law indeed is holy and the commandment
holy and righteous and good. 7:13 Therefore what is the good thing for me, has it become death?
Let it not happen! But sin, in order that it might appear as sin, through what is the good thing for
me, was working death; in order that sin might become a surpassingly-better sinner through the
commandment. 7:14 For* we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been sold*
under sin.

7:15 For* I do not know what I am working. For* I am doing this thing which I do not will but
instead I am doing this thing which I am hating. 7:16 But if I am practicing this thing which I do
not will, I assent together with the law; that it is good. 7:17 So now I no longer am working it, but
the sin which is dwelling in me. 7:18 For* I know what is a good thing is not dwelling in me, (that
is, in my flesh); for* it is laying beside me to will it, but I am not finding what is a good thing to
work it. 7:19 For* I am not practicing the good thing which I will, but instead I am doing this evil
thing which I do not will. 7:20 But if I am practicing this thing which I do not will, I am no longer
working it, but the sin which is dwelling in me. 7:21 Consequently*, I find the law to me who is
willing to practice the good thing– evil is laying beside me.

7:22 For* I delight-inwardly in the law of God according to the inward man. 7:23 But I am seeing
a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and capturing me in the law
of sin which is in my members. 7:24O I am a miserable man! Who will rescue me out of the body
of this death? 7:25 I am giving-thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore
consequently*, I myself, indeed, serve* the law of God with the mind, but I serve*the law of sin
with the flesh.

[Romans 8]

8:1 Consequently* now nothing is condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not
walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 8:2 For* the law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus made me free away from the law of sin and of death. 8:3 For* the law being
powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh; 8:4 in order that the ordinance of the
law might be fulfilled in us, those who are not walking according to the flesh, but walking
according to the Spirit. 8:5 For* those who are according to the flesh are mindful of the things of
the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit are mindful of the things of the Spirit. 8:6 For*
the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace; 8:7 because the
mindset of the flesh is hostility toward God; for* it is not subject to the law of God, for* neither is
it able to be; 8:8 and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God. 8:9 But you° are not in
the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed*the Spirit of God is dwelling in you°. But if anyone does not
have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. 8:10 But if Christ is in you°, the body is indeed dead
because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. 8:11 But if the Spirit of the one who
raised Jesus up from the dead is dwelling in you°, he who raised the Christ up from the dead will
also be giving-life to your° mortal bodies through his Spirit who is dwelling in you°.

8:12 Therefore consequently*, brethren, we are debtors but not to the flesh, not to live
according to the flesh; 8:13 for* if you° are living according to the flesh, you° are about to die, but
if you° slay the practices of the body in spirit, you° will be living. 8:14 For* as many as are led by
the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 8:15 For* you° did not receive the spirit of bondage again
to fear, but you° received the spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father. 8:16 The Spirit
himself is testifying together with our spirit, that we are children of God; 8:17 and if children, then
heirs; indeed, heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ; if indeed* we are suffering together with
him, in order that we might also be glorified together with him.

8:18 For* I reason that the sufferings of this current time are not worthy of complaint to the
glory which is about to be revealed to us. 8:19 For* the earnest expectation of the creation is
waiting for the revealing of the sons of God. 8:20 For* the creation was subjected to futility, not
voluntarily, but because of the one who subjected it, in hope 8:21 that even the creation itself will
be made free away from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children
of God. 8:22 For* we know that all creation groans and travails together in pain till now. 8:23 But
not only they, but we ourselves also who have the first-fruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves are
groaning in ourselves, waiting for our sonship, that is, the redemption of our body. 8:24 For* we
were saved in hope; but hope which is seen, is not hope; for* why does anyone even hope for
what he sees? 8:25 But if we hope for what we do not see, then we are waiting for it through
endurance.

8:26 Now likewise*, the Spirit is also jointly helping our weaknesses; for* we do not know what
we are praying for, that is according to what is essential for us; but the Spirit himself is
petitioning on our behalf with unspeakable groans; 8:27 and he who is searching the hearts knows
what the mindset of the Spirit is, because he is petitioning on behalf of the holy-ones according
to the will of God. 8:28 Now we know {F} that all things work together toward good, to those who
love* God, to those who are an invited one according to his purpose. 8:29 Because, whom he knew
beforehand, he also predetermined, one transformed to the image of his Son, *that* he himself
might be the firstborn among many brethren; 8:30 and whom he predetermined, he also invited
these and whom he invited, he also made these righteous and whom he made righteous, he also
glorified these.

8:31 Therefore what will we say to these things? If God is working on our behalf, who is
against us? 8:32 Yet, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all, how
will he not also be granting to us all things together with him? 8:33 Who shall accuse anything
against God's chosen? It is God who makes righteous. 8:34 Who is the one who condemns? Christ
is the one who died, but rather, who was also raised up from the dead, who is at the right hand of
God, who also is petitioning on our behalf.

8:35 Who will be separating us away from the love* of Christ? Shall affliction or distress or
persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? 8:36 Just-as it has been written, 'Because of
you we are slain the whole day. We were counted as sheep of the slaughter.' {Psa 44:22}8:37 But
we are victorious in all these things through the one who loved* us. 8:38 For* I have confidence,
that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor present things, nor
future things, 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor some other created thing, will be able to separate us
away from the love* of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

{Footnotes: Rm 8:28: that to those who love* God, he is working all things toward good for those who are called
according to his purpose.}

[Romans 9]

9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience is testifying together with me in the
Holy Spirit, 9:2 that great sorrow is in me and constant anguish in my heart. 9:3 For* I was praying
for myself to be accursed from the Christ on behalf of my brethren, my relatives according to the
flesh, 9:4 who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants* and the
institution of the law and the divine service and the promises; 9:5 whose are the fathers and from
whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all: God is gracious* forever. Amen.

9:6 But it is not such-as that the word of God has fallen short. For* they are not all Israel,
(those who are from Israel); 9:7 neither are they all children, because they are Abraham's seed,
but instead, 'In Isaac your seed will be called.' {Gen 21:12}9:8 This thing is, the children of the
flesh, these are not children of God, but the children of the promise are counted *for a seed. 9:9
For* this is the word of promise, 'I will come according to this season and Sarah will be with a
son.' {Gen 18:10}9:10 Now not only so, but also Rebecca having an impregnation from one man,
our father Isaac; 9:11 for*the children not yet having been born, nor having practiced anything
good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not from
works, but from the one who is calling. 9:12 It was said to her, 'The greater will be serving* the
inferior.' {Gen 25:23}9:13 Just-as it has been written, 'Jacob I loved*, but Esau I hated.' {Mal 1:2,3}

9:14 Therefore what shall we say? There is not unrighteousness with God, is there? Let it not
happen! 9:15 For* he says to Moses, 'I will show-mercy to whomever I show-mercy and I will
have pity on whomever I have pity.' {Exo 33:19}9:16 Therefore consequently*, it is not from the
one who wills, nor from the one who runs, but from God, the one who shows-mercy. 9:17 For* the
Scripture says to Pharaoh, 'I have lifted you up *for this same thing, *that I myself might show in
you my power and *that my name might be thoroughly proclaimed in all the earth.' {Exo 9:16}9:18
Therefore consequently*, he shows-mercy on whom he wills and he hardens whom he wills.

9:19 Therefore you will say to me, Why is he still finding-fault? For* who is standing against
his will? 9:20 But-rather, O man, who are you who answers back against God? The molded thing
will not say to the one who molded it, why did you make* me so, will it? {Isa 45:9?}9:21 Or does
the potter not have authority over the clay, to make* out of the same batch one vessel *for honor
and another *for dishonor? 9:22 But what if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power
known, carried us, vessels of wrath having been framed *for destruction, in much patience; 9:23
and in order that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he
prepared beforehand *for glory, 9:24 whom he also invited, not only from the Jews, but also from
the Gentiles?

9:25 As he also says in Hosea, 'I will be calling those who are not my people, my people, and
those not beloved, beloved.'{Ho. 2:23}9:26 And it will be, in the place where it was said to them,
'You°are not my people; they will be called sons of the living God there.' {Ho. 1:10}9:27 Now
Isaiah cries on behalf of Israel, 'If the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, only
the remnant will be saved; 9:28 for*he is completing and cutting-short the word in righteousness
because having been cut-short, the Lord will make* the word upon the earth.' {Isa 10:22, 23}9:29
And, just-as Isaiah has said before, 'If the Lord of Hosts did not leave us a seed, we would have
become like Sodom and would have been similar to Gomorrah.' {Isa 1:9}

9:30 Therefore what shall we say? That the Gentiles, who were not pursuing righteousness,
grabbed righteousness, even the righteousness from faith. 9:31 But Israel, pursuing the law of
righteousness, did not attain that law of righteousness. 9:32 Why? Because it was not from the
faith, but as it was from works of the law, for* they stumbled on the stone of stumbling; 9:33 just-as it has been written, 'Behold, I place a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense in Zion and
everyone who believes on him will not be ashamed.' {Isa 8:14 & 28:16}

[Romans 10]

10:1 Brethren, indeed the delight of my heart and my supplication to God on behalf of Israel, is
*for their salvation. 10:2 For* I testify to them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to
full knowledge. 10:3 For* being ignorant of God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own
righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. 10:4 For* Christ is the
end of the law *for righteousness to everyone who believes. 10:5 For* Moses writes of the
righteousness which is from the law, 'The man who practices those things will be living in them.'
{Lev 18:5 Ezek. 20:11}10:6 But the righteousness from faith says thus, 'You should not say in your
heart, Who will be ascending into heaven?' (This is: to lead Christ down.) 10:7 Or, 'Who will be
going down into the abyss?' (This is: to lead Christ up from among the dead.) 10:8 But what does
it say? 'The declaration is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.' {Deu 30:12-14?} This is the
declaration of the faith which we are preaching: 10:9 that if you confessed the Lord Jesus in your
mouth and if you have believed in your heart that God raised him up from the dead, you will be
saved; 10:10 for* it is believed in the heart toward righteousness and it is confessed with the mouth
toward salvation. 10:11 For* the Scripture says, 'Everyone who believes on him will not be
ashamed.' {Isa 28:16}10:12 For* there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for* the same Lord
is Lord of all, being rich toward all who are calling upon him; 10:13 for* everyone, 'Whomever
calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.' {Joel 2:32, Acts 2:21}10:14 Therefore how will they
call upon him in whom they have not believed? But how will they believe of whom they have
not heard? But how will they hear without someone preaching? 10:15 But how will they preach, if
they are not sent? Just-as it has been written, 'How Beautiful are the feet of those who are
proclaiming the good-news of peace and of those who are proclaiming the good-news of good
things!' {Isa 52:7}

10:16 But not all obeyed* the good-news; for* Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed our report?'
{Isa 53:1}10:17 Consequently*, the faith comes from our report but our report comes through the
declaration of God. 10:18 But I am saying, 'Did they not hear?' But-rather, 'Their sounds went out
into all the earth and their declarations to the ends of the inhabited-earth.' {Psa 19:4}10:19 But I am
saying, Did Israel not know? First Moses says, 'I will provoke you° to jealousy upon what is no
nation. I will rouse you° to anger upon a nation which has no understanding.' {Deu 32:21}10:20 Now
Isaiah is very daring and says, 'I was found by those who are not seeking me. I became manifest
to those who are not asking for me.' {Isa 65:1}10:21 But he says to Israel, 'The whole day, I
outstretched my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.' {Isa 65:2}

[Romans 11]

11:1 Therefore I say, God has not thrust away his people, has he? Let it not happen! For* I am
also an Israelite, from the seed of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. {Psa 94:14}11:2 God did
not thrust away his people which he knew beforehand. Or do you° not know what the Scripture
says by Elijah? How he petitions God against Israel, saying, 11:3 'Lord, they have killed your
prophets and have made ruins of your altars, and I am left alone and they are seeking my life.'
{1Ki. 19:10,14}11:4 But what does the divine-answer say to him? 'I have left to myself seven
thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.' {1Ki. 19:18}11:5 Therefore so there has also
become a remnant according to the chosen of grace in this current time. 11:6 But if it is by grace, it
is no more from works, otherwise grace becomes grace no more. But if it is from works, no more
is it grace; otherwise work is work no more. 11:7 Therefore what? What Israel is seeking after, it
did not obtain this, but the chosen obtained it and the rest were hardened; 11:8 just-as it has been
written, 'God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes in order that they should not see and ears in order
that they should not hear, until this very day.' {Isa 29:10, 6:9}11:9 And David says, 'Let their table
become *for a snare and *for a trap and *for an offense and *for a repayment to them. 11:10 Let their
eyes be darkened not to see and may you always bow down their backs.'{Psa 69:22-23}

11:11 Therefore I say, They have not tripped in order that they might fall, have they? Let it not
happen! But salvation has come to the Gentiles in their trespass, *that* they might provoke them
to jealousy. 11:12 Now if their trespass is the riches of the world and their loss is the riches of the
Gentiles; how much more is their fullness? 11:13 For* I speak to you° who are Gentiles, inasmuch
as I am indeed an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my service; 11:14 if somehow I provoke to jealousy
those who are my flesh and might save some out of them. 11:15 For* if the casting away of them is
the reconciliation of the world, what is the receiving of them, except life from the dead?

11:16 Now if the first-fruit is holy, also is the batch and if the root is holy, also are the
branches. 11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were
grafted in among them and became a fellow partner of the root and of the plumpness of the olive
tree among them. 11:18 Do not boast against the branches, but if you are boasting against them,
you are not bearing the root, but the root bears you. 11:19 Therefore you will say, Branches were
broken off, in order that I might be grafted in. 11:20 Well; they were broken off in their unbelief
but you are standing in the faith. Do not be cavalier, but fear; 11:21 for* if God did not spare the
natural branches, lest neither will he be sparing you. 11:22 Therefore, behold the kindness and
severity of God, indeed severity upon those who fell, but kindness upon you, if you remain in the
kindness of God: otherwise you also will be cut off. 11:23 And also those will be grafted in, if they
do not remain in their unbelief; for* God is able to graft them in again. 11:24 For* if you were cut
off from what is according to nature a wild olive tree and were grafted contrary to nature into a
good olive tree; how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their
own olive tree?

11:25 For* brethren, I do not wish you° to be ignorant of this mystery (that* you° may not be too
prudent with yourselves), that a hardening has come* partially to Israel, till the fullness of the
Gentiles should enter; 11:26 and thus all spiritual Israel will be saved, just-as it has been written,
'There will come out of Zion, he who rescues and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 11:27
And this is my covenant* with them, whenever I take away their sins.' {Isa 59:20-21, 27:9}11:28
According to the good-news they are indeed enemies because of you°, but according to the
choice, they are beloved because of the fathers. 11:29 For* the gifts* and the calling {Or: invitation;
and in all other instances in the MLV} of God are unregretted. 11:30 For* just-as you° were also
previously disobedient to God, but now you° were shown-mercy by their disobedience, 11:31 so
now these also were disobedient in your° mercy, in order that they might also be shown-mercy.
11:32 For* God has locked up together all to disobedience, in order that he might show-mercy upon
all.

11:33 O the depth of the riches, and of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How
unsearchable are his judgments and untraceable his ways! 11:34 For* who has known the mind of
the Lord? Or who has become his counselor? {Isa 40:13}11:35 Or who has first-given to him and it
will be repaid to him again?11:36It is because all things are from him and through him and to
him. The glory is for him, forever. Amen.

[Romans 12]

12:1 Therefore brethren, I am encouraging you° through the mercies of God, to present your°
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your° logical divine service. 12:2
And not to fashion yourselves to this age, but be transfigured by the renewal of your° mind, *that*
you° may be proving in you what is the will of God: the good and acceptable and mature.

12:3 For* I say, through the grace which was given to me, to everyone who is among you°, not
to have high-notions contrary to what he ought to be mindful of. But to be mindful of this grace,
*that* he should be sensible, as God has divided to each one a measure of faith. 12:4 For* just-as
we have many members in one body, and all the members do not have the same function; 12:5 so
we, the many, are one body in Christ, and every one members of one another. 12:6 Now having
assorted gifts* according to the grace which was given to us; if prophecy, then prophesy
according to the analogy of the faith; 12:7 if service, in the service; if he who is teaching, in the
teaching; 12:8 if he who is encouraging, in the encouragement; he who is giving, in liberality; he
who is governing, do in diligence; he who is showing-mercy to others, do with* joyfulness.

12:9Let the love*be non-pretended, abhorring evil things, joining yourselves to what is the
good thing. 12:10Be tenderly loving to one another in the love of the brethren; being the leader for
one another in honor; 12:11 not lazy in your diligence being zealous in your spirit; serving* the
Lord; 12:12 rejoicing in the hope; enduring in your affliction; persevering in your prayer; 12:13
sharing in the needs of the holy-ones; pursuing your hospitality. 12:14 Speak° well of those who
are persecuting you°; speak° well and do° not curse. 12:15Ready to rejoice with the ones rejoicing
and to weep with the ones weeping. 12:16 Being mindful of the same things toward one another
and not being mindful of the exalted things, but involve yourself with the humble. Do° not
become too prudent with yourselves. 12:17 Repay to no one evil in exchange-for evil. Plan-for
good things in the sight of all men. 12:18 If possible, what is from you should be at peace with all
men.

12:19 Beloved, do not be avenging yourselves, but give° a chance for the wrath of God; for* it
has been written, 'Vengeance is for me. I will be repaying, says the Lord.' {Deu 32:35}12:20
Therefore, if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for*while doing
this, you will be piling up hot-coals of fire upon his head. 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but
overcome evil with* good.

[Romans 13]

13:1 Let every soul be subject to the authorities which are superior to him; for* there is no
authority if not by God, and the authorities which are, have been appointed by God. 13:2 So-then,
the one who is resisting the authority is standing against the commandment of God, and those
who are standing against it will be receiving judgment for themselves. 13:3 For* rulers are not a
fear to those of the good works, but to those of the evil works. And you do not wish to be afraid
of the authority, do you? Do what is the good thing and you will have praise from it; 13:4 for* he is
a servant of God to you *for what is the good thing. But if you practice what is the evil thing, be
afraid; for* he is not wearing the sword vainly; for* he is a servant of God, an avenger *for wrath
to the one who is practicing the evil thing. 13:5 Hence, it is a necessity to be subject yourself to
him, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience. 13:6 For* you° are also
paying taxes because of this; for* they are ministers* of God, persevering toward this same thing.
13:7 Therefore give° to all, their dues: tribute to whom tribute; tax to whom tax; fear to whom fear;
honor to whom honor.

13:8 Owe° nothing to anyone, except to love* one another; for* he who loves* the other has
fulfilled the law. 13:9 For* the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery; Do not murder; Do not
steal; Do not covet, and if there is some other commandment in this word, it is summed up in the
commandment: 'You will love* your neighbor like yourself.' {Exo 20:13-15, 17; Lev 19:18}13:10 Love*
works no evil toward his neighbor. Therefore, love*is the fulfillment of the law.

13:11 Also this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour to be raised* from sleep; for* our
salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 13:12 The night has progressed, and the day has
drawn near. Therefore, we should place away from ourselves the works of darkness, and should
clothe ourselves with the weapons of light. 13:13 We should walk decently, like in the day; not in
revelings and drunkenness, not in sleeping-around and in unbridled-lusts, not in strife and in
jealousy. 13:14 But clothe° yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do° not practice forethought
*for the lusts of the flesh.

[Romans 14]

14:1 But receive° the one who is weak in the faith, yet not *for the judging of his reasonings. 14:2
One has faith to eat all things, but the one who is weak eats herbs. 14:3 Do not let the one who
eats, scorn the one who does not eat; and do not let the one who does not eat, judge the one who
eats; for* God himself has received him. 14:4 Who are you who is judging another's domestic
servant? He stands or falls to his own lord. Now, he will be made to stand up; for* it is possible
for God to stand him up. 14:5 One indeed is judging a day beside another day; but one is judging
each day the same; let each one be fully assured in his own mind. 14:6 He who is mindful of the
day, is mindful of it to the Lord; and he who is not mindful of the day, is not mindful of it to the
Lord; and he who eats, eats to the Lord, for* he gives-thanks to God. And he who does not eat, he
does not eat to the Lord, and gives-thanks to God. 14:7 For* none of us is living to himself, and
none dies to himself. 14:8 For*in both, if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the
Lord; therefore, in both, if we live or die, we are the Lord's. 14:9 For* Christ both died and rose* up
and lived *for this, in order that he might have lordship over both the dead and the living. 14:10 But
you, why do you judge your brother? Or you also, why do you scorn your brother? For* we will
all be standing-before the judicial-seat of Christ. 14:11 For* it has been written, 'As I live, says the
Lord, that every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess to God.' {Isa 45:23}14:12
Therefore consequently*, each of us will be giving an account concerning himself to God.

14:13 Therefore we should no longer judge° one another, but rather judge this: you are not to
place a stumbling block, or offense, in the way of the brother. 14:14 I know, and have confidence in
the Lord Jesus, that nothing is desecrated through itself, except to the one who counts something
to be desecrated, to that one it is desecrated. 14:15 But if your brother is made sorrowful because
of food, you are no longer walking according to love*. Do not destroy that man, on behalf of
whom Christ died, with your food. 14:16 Therefore do not let your° good thing be blasphemed; 14:17
for* the kingdom of God is not about food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the
Holy Spirit. 14:18 For* the one who is serving* Christ in these things is well pleasing to God and
approved by men. 14:19 Therefore consequently*, we may pursue the things of peace, and the
things for building up one another. 14:20 Do not tear-down the work of God because of food. All
things indeed are clean, but it is evil to the man who eats through a stumbling block. 14:21It is
good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor anything in which your brother stumbles or is
offended or is weak. 14:22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself in God's sight! The fortunate one
is not judging himself in what he is approving. 14:23 But he who is doubting has been condemned
if he eats, because he does not eat out of faith, and everything which is not from faith is sin.

14:24 Now to the one who is able to establish you° according to my good-news, and the
preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, having been kept-silent in
times everlasting, 14:25 but now, having been manifested, and through the prophetic Scriptures,
according to the commandment of the everlasting God, has made known to all the nations, into
the obedience of the faith; 14:26 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, in whom is the glory
forever. Amen.

[Romans 15]

15:1 Now we, the able, ought to bear the weaknesses of the powerless and not to please
ourselves. 15:2 Let each of us please his neighbor *for what is the good thing toward building him
up. 15:3 For* also Christ did not please himself, but, as it has been written, 'The reproaches of
those who are reproaching you fell upon me.' {Psa 69:9}15:4 For* as many things as were written
beforehand were written beforehand *for our instruction, in order that through the endurance and
through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 15:5 Now the God of the
endurance and the encouragement gives to you° to be mindful of the same thing among one
another according to Christ Jesus, 15:6 in order that you° may glorify the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ united with* one mouth. 15:7 Hence receive° one another, just-as Christ also
received you°, to the glory of God. 15:8 But I am saying that Christ Jesus has become a servant of
the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God, *that* he might confirm the promises given to the
fathers, 15:9 and that the Gentiles are to glorify God on behalf of his mercy; as it has been written,
'Because of this, I will profess you among the Gentiles and sing-praise to your name.' {Psa 18:49}15:10 And again he says, 'Gentiles be° joyous with his people.' {Deu 32:43}15:11 And again, 'Praise°
the Lord, all the Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise° him.' {Psa 117:1}15:12 And again, Isaiah
says, 'There will be the root of Jesse and he who was raised up to rule over the Gentiles; upon
him the Gentiles will hope.' {Isa 11:1, 10}15:13 Now the God of hope may fill you° with all joy and
peace in the believing, {Or: peace while* you° believe}*that* you° may abound in hope in the power of
the Holy Spirit.

15:14 And my brethren, I also have confidence in myself concerning you°, that you° yourselves
are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, being able also to admonish one
another. 15:15 But I wrote more-daringly to you° brethren individually, as reminding you° again,
because of the grace which was given to me by God, 15:16*that* I might be a minister* of Jesus
Christ to the Gentiles, having done the sacred work of the good-news of God, in order that the
offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, having been made holy in the Holy Spirit.

15:17 Therefore, I have my boasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God. 15:18 For* I
will not dare to speak of anything of the things which Christ did not work through me, except*for the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and works, 15:19 in the power of signs and wonders, in
the power of the Spirit of God. So-then, I have fulfilled the good-news of the Christ from
Jerusalem and in a circle, as far as Illyricum. 15:20 And so, I am making it my aim to proclaim the
good-news, not where Christ was already named, in order that I might not build upon another's
foundation; 15:21 but, as it has been written, 'They will see, to whom it was not reported
concerning him and those who have not heard will understand.' {Isa 52:15}

15:22 Hence also, I was being hindered these many times from coming to you°, 15:23 but now,
having no longer a place in these districts and having a longing to come to you° from many years
ago. 15:24 Like whenever I travel through toward Spain, I will be coming to you°, (for* I am
hoping to see you° when* I am traveling through and to be sent onward by you°, if first I may be
partially filled from you°). 15:25 But now, I am traveling to Jerusalem, serving the holy-ones. 15:26
For* Macedonia and Achaia were delighted to make* a certain generosity to the poor of the holy-ones in Jerusalem. 15:27 For* they were delighted and they are their debtors. For* if the Gentiles
shared in the spiritual things of them, they owe it to them also to minister* to them in the fleshly
things. 15:28 Therefore, having completed this thing and having sealed this fruit for them, I will be
going away into Spain through you°. 15:29 Now I know while coming to you°, I will be coming in
the fullness of the blessing of the good-news of the Christ.

15:30 Now brethren, I am encouraging you° through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love*
of the Spirit, to struggle together with me, and on my behalf in your° prayers to God; 15:31 in order
that I may be rescued away from those who are disobedient in Judea and in order that my service
which I have*for Jerusalem might become acceptable to the holy-ones; 15:32 in order that I may
come to you° in joy through the will of God and I may rest together with you°. 15:33 Now the God
of peace is with all of you°. Amen.

[Romans 16]

16:1 I commend to you° Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of my needs from the congregation*
in Cenchreae: 16:2 in order that you° should accept her in the Lord, worthy of the holy-ones, and
that* you° should stand beside her in whatever matter she has need from you°. For* she herself
has also become an assistant of many, and of me myself.

16:3 Greet° Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, 16:4 who have risked their own
neck on behalf of my life; whom I not only give-thanks, but also all the congregations* of the
Gentiles; 16:5 and the congregation*who is in their house. Greet° Epaenetus, my beloved, who is
the first-fruit of Achaia to Christ. 16:6 Greet° Mary, who labored much *for us. 16:7 Greet°
Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow captives, who are notable even among the
apostles, who has also happened to be in Christ before me. 16:8 Greet° Amplias, my beloved in the
Lord. 16:9 Greet° Urbanus our fellow worker in Christ and Stachys my beloved. 16:10 Greet°
Apelles, the approved, in Christ. Greet° those who are from the household of Aristobulus. 16:11
Greet° Herodion my relative. Greet° those from the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
16:12 Greet° Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who are laboring in the Lord. Greet° the beloved Persis,
who labored much in the Lord. 16:13 Greet° Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and
mine. 16:14 Greet° Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Hermas, Patrobas and the brethren who are
together with them. 16:15 Greet° Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all
the holy-ones who are together with them. 16:16 Greet° one another with* a holy kiss. The
congregations* of Christ greet you°.

16:17 Now brethren, I am encouraging you°, to note those making {Or: practicing} the dissensions
and the offenses contrary to the teaching which you° learned and are practicing, and shun° away
from them. 16:18 For* such are not serving* our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and they are
deceiving the hearts of the guiltless through their smooth-talk and blessings.

16:19 For* your° obedience has reached out to all men. Therefore I rejoice over you°, but I wish
for you° to be indeed wise as to what is good, and harmless to what is evil. 16:20 Now the God of
peace will crush the Adversary under your° feet shortly.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is among you°.

16:21 Timothy my fellow worker greets you°, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relatives.
16:22 I Tertius, who writes this letter, greet you° in the Lord. 16:23 Gaius greets you°, my host and of
the whole congregation*. Erastus the steward of the city greets you° and Quartus the brother. 16:24
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with all of you°. Amen.

{Verses 16:25-27 in the KJV are in the Majority Text as Romans 14:24 - 14:26.}

16:25 (14:24)Now to the one who is able to establish you° according to my good-news and the
preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept-silent
in times everlasting, 16:26 (14:25)but now having been manifested and by the prophetic Scriptures,
according to the commandment of the everlasting God, has made known to all the nations, into
the obedience of the faith; 16:27 (14:26)to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, in whom is the
glory is forever. Amen.

{NOTES: Please read the Preface and other non-bible sections. * is our universal footnoting for words contained
in the 'Definitions' section. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e. *FOR is
different from FOR* is different from FOR.}